jet
/ˈd͡ʒɛt/
"jet" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“jet” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #4,388 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,388
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈd͡ʒɛt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “jet” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for jet is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈd͡ʒɛt/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,388 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for jet in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Jr", "jo", "JI", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar. The correct English form is jet, spelled J-E-T.
Definition
- 1A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- 2A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- 3A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- 4An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
- 5An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
- 6A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- 7A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- 8Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
- 9The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
Etymology
Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “jet”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is J-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈd͡ʒɛt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Jr” - see the side-by-side comparison. jet vs Jr
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.